Job Description
Summary
Your Role
Messari is looking for an experienced senior machine learning engineer to drive our growing NLP efforts. This is an exciting opportunity to define and implement the machine learning strategy as we scale to more complex use cases and from millions to billions of documents. As Messari grows, data engineering, machine learning, and particularly NLP will become critical.
From a technical side, we currently use spaCy & Python, but were flexible and pragmatic with technology choices. Most of the other services at Messari are Golang based with some Rust for performance and Java for legacy apps.
What you'll do
- Own and manage production NLP projects end-to-end, beginning with our existing NER & classification pipeline and extending to new projects as we expand.
- Drive the data collection, quality and annotation processes across the company.
- Operationalize, monitor and integrate models across the company for critical external and internal production use cases.
- Educate the team and the company on the state of the art as well as present automation and product opportunities given our rich datasets and talented analysts.
Who you are
- You have 4+ years experience with production backend software engineering using reasonably modern technologies (like SQL, Git) and languages (like Python, Java, Golang).
- You have 3+ years experience building robust production machine learning & NLP applications from beginning to end and youre deeply interested in and cognizant of the evolution, state and future of NLP and deep ML more broadly.
- You are pragmatic and product-driven - this is not a research position, but we realize we may need to innovate where it matters to become industry-leading. Whatever works best works, whether it is off-the-shelf, fine-tuned or trained from scratch.
- You are ready and willing to own and drive a complex project, from taking into account internal and external stakeholders to defining, refining, planning, executing and maintaining a vision.
- You are willing, capable and happy to get deep down into the unglamorous but essential details of operating a complex service (e.g., tuning SQL query performance, handling weird endpoints)
Projects you could work on
- NER, classification & linking: Improve and extend our NER & classification models for analyzing crypto content. Replace our rules-driven with an ML-driven entity linking model.
- Sentiment: Build robust sentiment analysis models for challenging crypto content across news, social media, forms and other diverse sources.
- Event extraction & linking: Extract complete events end-to-end on top of / akin to our NER & classification pipeline and link/cluster them with internal and external databases.
What's it like to work with our engineering team?
- A welcoming and open environment with people who love to collaborate on ideas and tackle complex problems
- Work with a small team of engineers with large impact across product, research, and business development
- Participate in forums like Family Meals and Messari Lab to share ideas or technologies youve been exploring and tinkering with
Salary Ranges for this position (depending upon experience): #LI-AS1
Associate: $135,000 - $155,000
Mid: $155,000 - $185,000
Senior: $185,000 - $200,000 +
- Competitive Salary and Employee Stock Options: Everyone in our team contributes to the success of our game-changing products, which is why we share all our wins company-wide. As we continue to succeed, stock options and a competitive salary mean you get to enjoy the upside!
- Health, Dental, & Vision: We care about your well-being so we contribute to the cost of your health benefits. Messari covers 80% of your health, dental, and vision!
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA): Use pretax dollars for any health care needs.
- Life Insurance: Provided to you at no cost, with coverage up to 1x your Annual Salary.
- Disability Insurance: Offering Long-term and Short-term disability to provide a portion of your income during times you are unable to work!
- Flexible Time Off: Forget accrued PTO days. We believe in the power of personal time, so we offer as much flexible time as you need. Just clear it with your team and bon voyage!
- Paid Parental Leave: We encourage you to take care of your little one! We provide 18 weeks for primary caregiver / 4 weeks for secondary caregiver
- WeWork: All Access Pass.
- 401k: 3% Match when you invest in your future with our 401K.
- Flexible working life and $500 WFH set up allowance: Work-life balance is important. Whether you want to work from home or come to our office in New York the choice is yours. To help you get comfortable working from home well assist with a $500 contribution.
- Community & Social Events: Messari is a community, we work hard, and bring each other up! Fun and regular company events to relax and connect with teammates.
- Learning and Development: We are dedicated to your professional development. We contribute $1,500 annually for you to invest in your continued education.
- Health & Wellness Perks: Work-life balance and your wellbeing are important to us. To contribute to your mental & physical wellbeing we gift you a brand new Whoop and a subscription to Headspace, as well as Health Advocacy as part of our Employee Assistance Plan.
Skills
- Software Engineering